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It has been one year since the murder of four University of Idaho students in their off-campus home — with the two surviving roommates keeping low profiles since the thick slaying.
Dylan Mortensen and Bethany Funke were both home when criminology student Bryan Kohbeger allegedly snuck into the Moscow house on Nov. 13, 2022, and stabbed their roommates Maddie Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernoddle, and Ethan Chapin to death in their beds.
Mortensen, 21, even came face-to-face with the killer just moments after the bloody slaughter, telling authorities she saw a “figure clad in black clothing and a mask” walking towards the home’s back exit just after 4 am, according to a police report.
The two women were also allegedly texting each other while the murders were happening and received an onslaught of online hatred after it was revealed no one called 911 for several hours after the quadruple slaying happened.
Since then, the two roommates who were spared have kept low profiles.
Mortensen has reportedly been “isolating herself.”
She was seen briefly after the murders running near her parents’ home but has since evaded media attention.
“In the beginning weeks after those homicides, she was basically dogpiled on social media,” private investigator J. Reuben Appelman told NewsNation.
“This was part of the trauma that she experienced. “Dylan herself has retired from the public eye, very few people see her.”
Mortensen’s father reportedly told Appelman that his daughter is now in “trauma therapy of sorts.”
“She’s getting help from the spiritual community,” the private investigator said. “She’s doing what she can without going into public.”
Funke, 21, has kept an even lower profile and now lives in Nevada.
She has only been heard from when her attorneys filed a motion earlier this year to dismiss a subpoena that would force her to testify as part of murder suspect Bryan Kohberger’s defense.
Funke, however, later agreed to sit down for an interview with the suspect’s attorneys. It is unclear if this happened or what came out of it.
It is still a mystery why Mortensen and Funke took so long to call the police on the night of the slayings.
“We don’t know if it was an issue of intoxication, or of fear,” an Idaho law enforcement source told The Post in January.
According to a newly released police affidavit, Mortensen thought she heard Goncalves saying: “There’s someone here,” followed by the sound of crying from Kernodle’s room and a male voice ringing out: “It’s OK, I’m going to help you.”
Early police reports said the roommates — who lived on the first and second floors of the house — had friends come to the scene before one of them finally called 911.
The pair were quickly ruled out as suspects, cops said.
In December, Mortensen and Funke got matching tattoos on the back of their elbows to honor their murdered roommates — the first letter of each of their friends’ first names surrounded by angel wings.
Mortensen told his four roommates “changed the way I look at life.”
Funke wrote that the victims “were all gifts to this world in their own special way — and it just won’t be the same without you.”
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